About Thomas Ash

Who am I?

I studied philosophy at Cambridge (where I was also president of the University Atheist and Agnostic Society, which was an interesting experience...) and then at graduate level at Oxford. My masters thesis topic was 'Intellectual Responsibility', and I have a longstanding interest in epistemology, and in particular in questions surrounding justification and (you guessed it) intellectual responsibility. My other main intellectual interests are (within philosophy) ethics and philosophy of religion and (beyond philosophy) religion more broadly, history, and politics.

Since then, I've worked for a number of political magazines and campaigns, focusing on running, developing and designing their web presences. I am currently web development magager at New Internationalist, a forty year old magazine campaigning for global and environmental justice, which is run as a co-op in which all employees are directors and receive equal pay. Immediately before that, I was an associate editor and web development consultant at openDemocracy, an online magazine of global politics, ideas and culture. I run the website of Giving What We Can, a group of people who've pledged to give at least 10% of their incomes to the most cost-effective poverty-alleviation charities - if this sounds aligned with your values, please consider joining! I also work as a freelance web designer and developer, having built sites for projects like the Convention on Modern Liberty that took place to much fanfare in early 2008. For more on this side of me, see my portfolio site...

How to get in touch with me

You can always comment on what I've written directly, using the contact form at the bottom of each page, but to contact me directly, you can use the PhilosoFiles contact form. If you think any essay on this site has clear factual errors or is poorly formatted or otherwise of low quality, please let me know. I struggle to keep the quality of PhilosoFiles as consistently high as possible, but I'm sure there's room for improvement (there always is).

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